PharmD_Rodriguez said:Gym confidence after training weight loss: walked into a gym for the first time in 10 years yesterday.
Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a half marathon last Saturday.
My fitness journey alongside GLP-1 therapy:
- Month 1-2: Walking 15 min/day
- Month 3-4: Walking 30-45 min, started bodyweight exercises
- Month 5-6: Joined a gym, started resistance training
- Month 7+: Running, lifting heavy, cycling for fun
The weight loss made movement possible. The movement made more weight loss possible. Virtuous cycle in action.
One concrete data point for the thread. Give anything pharmacological four weeks before you judge it, and give anything measured weekly a four-point rolling average before you call it a trend.
LipidDoc_ATL said:Exercise transformation with training: went from barely able to walk a block to completing a half marathon last Saturday.
There is a second half to this that has not been said yet. It helps to say which part of this you are uncertain about. A precise question gets a precise answer; a general one gets everybody’s favourite anecdote.
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Shop Reference StandardsOne thing that is still open after Dr.NutriCornell’s answer:
How long did you give it before you decided it was working?
OP back with an update, since a thread like this is useless without one.
Closing this out. What actually changed my mind was the point about waiting for a trend instead of reading a single measurement, which is embarrassing in hindsight and worth saying anyway.